Quotes About Sportsmanship

I've always appreciated basketball. I never tried to disrespect the game.

Stealing someone's signals was a part of the game and everybody attempted to do that. We had people that always tried to steal signals.

The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball.

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

The last thing I want to do is force tries to happen.

My approach every game really tries to stay the same. I try not to make it about me. I try not to make it about my personal vendettas.

We don't trip if someone like Patrick Beverley is talking trash; that's how he feeds his family. We get it. We respect the hustle.

I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turned around, he was hitting a triple or making a great play in the field or, best of all, stealing home.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

When I play for Delhi in Ranji Trophy, I try to help Delhi win, and when I play IPL for KKR, I aim to make KKR win.

I'm not a troublemaker. People say, 'You got into a lot of incidents.' Yeah, but it was on the basketball floor.

I've been in there with, to me, some top-tier guys, and so has Trout. You can't take that away from him at all. He's fought all of the top guys, everybody.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

All I can say is that I played the game in true spirit.

If you are an educated man, you respect your opponent, his team, and all those people around; then you are truly a human being.

It's easy to make a cue last a lifetime. Don't boil it or freeze it in the trunk of a car. Don't lean it against a wall for years. If you lose a game to a complete idiot, hit the edge of the table in anger with something other than your cue.

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

Ties in the NFL absolutely suck. Trust me, I was involved with a tie against the San Francisco 49ers when I was with the Rams in 2012 and it felt pointless.

You must tell the truth. You must be truthful to yourself and the values of the game that got you there.

Remember the look in the eyes of the Aussies and the Kiwis yesterday - I don't want to see that here.

But golf being an international game and everybody loving the game the way they do, if you want to spread the game of golf, it's good that you have great competition.

You fought fair. If the other guy wants to fight and you knocked him out, you did your best for him. You didn't want to hurt him any more.

When things are said and done, I always want to be remembered as a great teammate and a great player.

Offside killed my team. They are not God. They made a mistake and I understand. I don't want three points, I just want 'sorry.'